Lesson 1- Introduction to Genetics- Mendel's Data
The first lesson will consist of a discussion of physical characteristics of students compared to those of their parents. The discussion will cause students to become curious about why they inherited certain traits from their parents and why they did not inherit others. A pre-assessment worksheet will be handed out and filled out by students to allow me to see how much they already know about the topic of genetics. The second half of the lesson will consist of an inquiry based activity that requires students to analyze Gregor Mendel's experiments.
Lesson 2- Monohybrid Punnett Squares
The point of this lesson is to focus on the learning strategy of teaching someone else. Students begin the lesson by working with partners to answer the questions they each developed as homework. I will keep students engaged in the lesson while giving notes by having students share what they learned by reading the textbook about the material. Students will work with their partners to complete a worksheet that gives them practice doing monohybrid crosses in Punnett squares. The last problem is a challenge question and students will be offered one extra point on their future quiz if they answer it correctly.
Lesson 3- Dihybrid Punnett Squares
This lesson will involve another inquiry-based activity where students create Punnett squares for dihybrid crosses and then develop a procedure using coins to test their results.
Lesson 4- Other forms of Inheritance
Today's lesson focuses on incomplete dominance, codominance, multiple allelic traits, and polygenic traits. Students will engage in a blood typing activity where students act as lawyers to try and solve a mystery using blood types. They will be required to know how to cross blood types in a Punnett square.
Lesson 5- Quiz time!
Students will take a short quiz that covers the first three sections of Chapter 11. They will then watch a video that shows the relationships between traits, genes, and chromosomes and explains the structure of DNA. We will review the process of mitosis in preparation for learning about meiosis.
Lesson 6- Meiosis
Students will create a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts mitosis and meiosis. They will also create a "foldable", or a flip book that shows a labeled picture and explanation of each phase of meiosis.
Lesson 7- Sex-linked Traits
Technology will be incorporated in this lesson through a website from the University of Utah. The online activities have students create a karyotype and then models how genetic disorders can be detected from a karyotype. We will discuss the more popular genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease.
The first lesson will consist of a discussion of physical characteristics of students compared to those of their parents. The discussion will cause students to become curious about why they inherited certain traits from their parents and why they did not inherit others. A pre-assessment worksheet will be handed out and filled out by students to allow me to see how much they already know about the topic of genetics. The second half of the lesson will consist of an inquiry based activity that requires students to analyze Gregor Mendel's experiments.
Lesson 2- Monohybrid Punnett Squares
The point of this lesson is to focus on the learning strategy of teaching someone else. Students begin the lesson by working with partners to answer the questions they each developed as homework. I will keep students engaged in the lesson while giving notes by having students share what they learned by reading the textbook about the material. Students will work with their partners to complete a worksheet that gives them practice doing monohybrid crosses in Punnett squares. The last problem is a challenge question and students will be offered one extra point on their future quiz if they answer it correctly.
Lesson 3- Dihybrid Punnett Squares
This lesson will involve another inquiry-based activity where students create Punnett squares for dihybrid crosses and then develop a procedure using coins to test their results.
Lesson 4- Other forms of Inheritance
Today's lesson focuses on incomplete dominance, codominance, multiple allelic traits, and polygenic traits. Students will engage in a blood typing activity where students act as lawyers to try and solve a mystery using blood types. They will be required to know how to cross blood types in a Punnett square.
Lesson 5- Quiz time!
Students will take a short quiz that covers the first three sections of Chapter 11. They will then watch a video that shows the relationships between traits, genes, and chromosomes and explains the structure of DNA. We will review the process of mitosis in preparation for learning about meiosis.
Lesson 6- Meiosis
Students will create a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts mitosis and meiosis. They will also create a "foldable", or a flip book that shows a labeled picture and explanation of each phase of meiosis.
Lesson 7- Sex-linked Traits
Technology will be incorporated in this lesson through a website from the University of Utah. The online activities have students create a karyotype and then models how genetic disorders can be detected from a karyotype. We will discuss the more popular genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease.
Lesson 8- Pedigrees
Lesson 9- The Human Genome Project
Final Assessment